sorry to hear of unhelpful skies some are having!
- well that was an interesting little show, managed to (eventually) get some clear sky at a country locale, and observed from about 12:40 till 2:25 am local time, had mostly 60% cloud free skies, far from perfect conditions, had to watch from close to a town, closer than I normally would.
Saw many meteors despite this, as it was impromtu and I was actually after aurora shots, so didnt take notes. The band of the summer milky way was fairly easy to see before the moon rose, an easy HUGE step up from my backyard for sure.
saw maybe 30 or so meteors in the 1.5 and a bit hours, of which maybe 9 or 10 were bright ones, in the 0 to -2 mag category, and which mostly covered large parts of the sky with nice glowing wakes
saw a nice little cluster flurry of really obvious shortish gems in quicktime close to radiant at one point, thats always a treat! and a very pretty green gem at another point.
how many of the 30 or so were gems?, well maybe 20, including just about all the bright ones, cant be sure, had trouble with large trees in view at my emergency spot, in mentally plotting some meteors, some seemed to be orionids or alpha monoceritids! impossible and weird!, but all generally eminating close to gem radiant, so they must of been gems?
